"Mark J. Reed" wrote on Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:46:37 -0500:

>Apostrophes aren't special in AppleScript strings; there's no need to escape
>them at
>all.   Backslash (\) is indeed the escape character, but it's only legal in
>front of double quotation marks (") or another backslash.

It's also accepted in front of "t", "n", and "r", but the combinations
more visibly compile to the respective tab, linefeed, and return characters.

NG